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Roger Bonner (we is)
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#Poet, #playwright, #writer of children's books, living in Basel, Switzerland. #Haiku #poetry #humorist #satirist
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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · Oct 30
Great #news two of my #haiku have been accepted for the #HaikuCrush
#Anthology #BestHaiku #2025!
haikucrush.bsky.social Haiku Crush @haikucrush.bsky.social · Oct 29
#Haiku is alive in '25!

The 3 judges @haikucrush.bsky.social have announced... two haiku by Roger Bonner @bonnerr.bsky.social of #Basel #Switzerland will be published in The Best Haiku 2025 anthology.

"I love the fleeting moment of a haiku based on direct observation."

#poetry #poetrycommunity
Pictured is haikuist Roger Bonner, who the three judges @haikucrush.bsky.social announced today that two haiku by Bonner @bonnerr.bsky.social of #Basel #Switzerland will be published in The Best Haiku 2025 international anthology. "I love the fleeting moment of a haiku based on direct observation," he notes. In addition to Bluesky, Bonner can be followed on Instagram @rogerbonner.ch
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Little red shoes go
splashing away in puddles-
grandpa pulls child back

#haiku #rain #puddles
#children #vss365
#photography
February 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
It’s Valentine Day-
Say I love you to someone,
here or far away

#ValentineDay #love
#Haiku #Sanryu #flowers
#Vss365 #photography
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Two old frying pans
waiting for the rubbish truck-
great meals remembered

#haiku #senryu #cooking
#memories #age #BlueSkyPoets
#photography #vss365
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Lone bench in puddle
waiting for someone to sit-
discuss who lost glove?

#haiku #senryu #rain
#vss365 #photography
February 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Reading old journal
of a trip to Italy-
hoped to meet someone

#Haiku #memories #Italy
#BlueSkyPoets #vss365
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 PM
bonnerr.bsky.social
A baby’s cry in
the streetcar clicking along-
sound of gurgling vowels

#haiku #baby #BlueSkyPoets
#vsd365
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Clouds snagged in branches;
Labyrinth of twigs clings fast—
Veils rending slowly

#Haiku #WinterHaiku #NaturePoetry #BlueSkyPoets
#photography #vss365
February 9, 2026 at 7:49 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
She reviews her life;
hundreds of photos stare back-
years pressed in albums

#haiku #memories #photoalbums
#vss365 #BlueSkyPoets
February 8, 2026 at 7:46 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Train racing along;
my hand lifts, shutter snaps —
grass merging with snow

#Haiku #TravelHaiku #WinterThaw #BlueSkyPoets #Nature
#trains #photography #Vss365
February 7, 2026 at 7:46 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Thought I’d have a go at the #HaikuHorrorPrompt #rended

Drapes rended apart;
shadow of Doppelgänger —
a Dorian Gray grins

#BlueSkyPoets #Vss365
#Doppelgänger #sanryu
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Outside, a deluge
of news seeps under my door-
I plug it with rags

#saryu #news #BlueSkyPoets
#vss365 #deluge
February 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Sunlight dappling moss
spreading on an ancient wall —
framed by iron bars

#Haiku #Nature #Moss #BlueSkyPoets #NaturePhotography
#BlueSkyPoets
#vss365
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
My first rejection
of the year for a great poem-
I won’t sob all day

#Sanryu #WritersLife #rejection
#BlueSkyPoets #vss365 #poetry
#Haiku
February 3, 2026 at 8:05 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Sun over rooftop
illuminates my window-
shadows on words shift

#Haiku #sun #window #words
#vss365
February 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Bursting through tarmac—
fragile flower blossoming
in midwinter light

#haiku #flowers #BlueSkyPoets
#photography #vss365 #winterlight
February 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Path yet untrodden-
Who will be the first to leave
footprints in the snow?

#haiku #winter #snow #footprints #alps #naturepoetry #micropoetry #blueskypoets #vss365 #photography
January 31, 2026 at 7:47 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
A cat in the field
carefully digs a small hole-
arches back to poop

#Haiku #NatureObservation #AnimalBehaviour #cats #vss365
#BlueSkyPoets
January 30, 2026 at 9:01 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
To celebrate my 300 posts of original #haikus and #sanryus,
here's an original #poem about a #dream I had last night.
#vss365 #BlueSkyPoets
January 29, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Crow in tangled twigs;
we eye each other again-
blink, it flaps away

#Haiku #NaturePoetry #BirdPoetry #BlueSkyPoets #vss365 #photography
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
The big weather vane’s
bluster about using ICE
is slowly waning

#Sanryu #vss365 #prompt
#wane
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Dog bored by lecture
about trains and cable cars-
I’ll just sleep through it

#sanryu #dogs #vss365
#photography #BlueSkyPoets
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Mist and snow mingle,
blurring face of the mountain—
An old man asleep

#haiku #winter #mountains #mist #stillness #vss365 #BlueSkyPoems
#photography
January 25, 2026 at 7:23 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Sun dawns on warscape;
young soldiers dead in hundreds—
ruler in bunker

#senryu #haiku #war #Ukraine
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Spruce watch setting sun;
soon the night will reign again-
spirits of the woods

#haiku #naturepoetry #winterlight #forest #dusk #spirits #micropoetry #naturephotograph #vss365
#BlueSkyPoets
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
bonnerr.bsky.social
Three little goats who
wonder what to do today-
stay home and go maaaaa!

#Senryu #Micropoetry #HumourPoetry #AnimalPoetry #Goats #LightVers
#vss365 #photography
January 21, 2026 at 8:38 AM